I've Loved You All My Life

I've walked with you a hundred years.
We've laughed and cried for more.
Yet through the laughter and the tears
it's you that I adore.

It seems forever since I've known
a day without your love.
And by your side my spirit's flown
to touch the stars above.

And yet those stars are in your eyes.
The moon is in your gaze.
I look at you and realize
the million different ways

you've brought to me a life renewed -
a life that would not be ...
except for you - I must conclude
that you were meant for me.

A thousand days and thousands more ...
some filled with joy - some strife.
The future holds so much in store.
I've loved you all my life.

"How can it be?" I hear you say.
Some years alone foreran
the day we met - that fateful day ...
was when my life began.

You taught me so much
about life and living ...
of happiness and love,
and caring and giving

You've given yourself
in so many ways.
I scarce can recall
the lonelier days

when there wasn't you
to brighten my life.
I'm happier still
to call you my wife.

You've brought me along
through levels of growth.
And in my return,
I'll give you my oath

to always be there
wherever you are
for you'll always be
my bright, shining star.

In the dark, I think of how
one love can light a life ...
to see a way from pain and fear ...
from weariness and strife.

In the dark, I concentrate
on what you mean to me.
And how my life has been so changed
from what it used to be.

In the dark, I still recall
the loneliness before
you came to me and filled my world
with love forever more.

In the dark, I smile to think
of how it could have been.
If not for you, I could have looked
but never would have seen.

In the dark, it's funny how
it all turns out to be.
That one chance meeting, turned to love,
made such a change in me.

In the dark, I wonder if
forever we'll be one.
Or will some fate come in and take
away my shining sun?

Then in the dark, I'll always be
without your love to light
my way with hope and joy and warmth
and happiness and sight.

But in the dark, I hear you sigh
and feel you move your head
to find my shoulder and to rest
so safe inside our bed.

And in the dark, you kiss my cheek
as if you want to say,
Don't worry Love, I will be yours ...
at least another day.

As midnight nears, I lay awake
and count the blessings I
enjoy each day - make no mistake.
I know the reason why.

Her touch is magic. My true love
can right whatever's wrong.
No matter what I'm frightened of,
her love can make me strong.

Her touch is magic. She can lift
me up when I am down.
Her love has been the greatest gift
that I have ever known.

Her touch is magic. One sweet smile
can brighten up the night.
She makes my life seem so worthwhile.
She makes me feel I'm right.

Her touch is magic. In it's grace
I have become the man
who knows a gentle, warm embrace
is something greater than

all other strengths I've ever known
since I was placed on earth.
Her touch is magic. I have grown
to realize my worth.

Her touch is magic. Yet is seems
so simple to me now.
She lets me understand my dreams
are possible somehow.

Her touch is magic. It can take
away my doubts and fear.
No matter what I undertake,
my worries disappear.

Her touch is magic. Her belief
in me has made me try
in life to turn a brand new leaf
and not to question why.

Her touch is magic. One caress
can ease a heavy load.
With out that touch, I must confess,
such darkness would forebode.

Her touch is magic. That sweet lass
I've loved for all these years,
has shared with me and filled life's glass
with happiness and tears.

The magic touch is in the way
she shares her life with me.
Her touch is magic every day
and will forever be.

When I see you, I see the girl
I met so long ago.
Exactly so, I saw you when
I couldn't hope to know

that we would share our lives in love,
and happiness and such ...
as I can scarcely comprehend
how two could love so much.

Younger then, and so afraid
to trust another mate.
Having lost at love before,
despairing at our fate.

A chance we took, a seed we sowed
and nurtured it until
it came to blossom as true love
and so it flowers still.

The years march on. They will not wait,
so we can keep our youth.
But with their passing, I can see
a fundamental truth.

It's not a face, so young and fair
that keeps a man at home.
Nor buxom curves, or youthful step
nor anything I own.

I look at you and I know why
I chose the path I took.
It doesn't matter if we fight
today or how you look.

When I see you, I see the girl
I've loved for many years.
Our lives we share in happiness,
in joy ... in strife ... in tears

The years can never confiscate
those memories of how
you taught me what it meant to love
for all my years, and now.

There are times we don't agree
on what is worst or best.
We have our little arguments
on when to work or rest.

Sometimes we cannot seem to make
the smallest little choice,
without first angering the one
to whom we raise our voice.

Why is it so? Why do we fight
while sharing love so strong?
Or is it just a fact of life
that carries us along ...

its path to evening, then to morn
and every day we live,
we learn respect for each one's rights
and that we have to give.

To show the love we hold inside
is often hard to do.
I want to tell you how I feel ...
that I love only you.

But human I can only be
so if I wound your pride,
please understand my love for you
is something I can't hide.

I'm sorry that we cannot share
each waking day in bliss.
But in the balance, I'm aware
of nothing more than this ...

I love you, darling

The hard snow cracks 'neath footfall's pass
as we walk arm in arm
and barely feel the icy blast
so snug and safe and warm.

In love we blithely disregard
the winter's chill outside.
And though it blows so cold and hard,
the wind can't reach inside

our hearts, whose furnace is aflame
with passions old and new.
And kindled so, I will remain
in love with only you.

The falling snow lites on your face
and crowns with white your hair.
And in your eyes I see a place
of sanctuary where

I want to dwell forever more
on winter nights like this.
And you can warm me as before
with just another kiss.

Thinking back through the years
since that night we first met,
a part of me hears
things I'll never forget.

Like a walk in the snow
on a still winter night.
With hearts all aglow
as our spirits unite.

Or the struggle to live
not a dime to our name.
What strength did it give
us when we overcame.

Then the times that we spent
miles away from our heart.
How still I resent
any day we're apart.

And then the big move
to a far distant place -
our lives to improve
(well, it could be the case).

We toiled long and hard
overlooking our fears.
With blind disregard,
we progressed our careers.

Till one day we woke
weary, listless and spent.
In anger we spoke
words we shouldn't have meant.

Yet we learned in that phase
things we could not forsake.
Be it hours or days,
it's the time we must take.

We survived these long years
Now much wiser than then.
Through laughter and tears,
I'd repeat it again.

But you trusted me then
and you still trust me now.
I hope that I can
be deserving somehow.

Though I cannot foresee
all the things I will do,
my objective will be ...
"spend a lifetime with you."

Last night I stirred. With sleep-fogged gaze,
I watched you as you slept.
So angel-like in many ways,
I very nearly wept.

Your faced peeked out from ruffled quilt
and pillow 'neath your chin.
I gazed at you and keenly felt
a stirring deep within.

Is this the girl who years ago
I took to be my bride?
Is this the lass who loves me so
who lies here by my side?

So quiet then in bed you lay
with radiance glowing through.
How perfect seems the coming day
to start it next to you.

So many thoughts went through my mind
of times we laughed and played.
So filled with love of every kind ...
I hope they never fade.

I looked again to strengthen those
sweet memories I'll keep.
I kissed your brow and cuddled close
and then fell back to sleep.

Why did I wake? I cannot tell
the wherefore or the when.
I only know last night I fell
in love with you again.